Ben van Kerkwyk
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at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey, the only manufacturing plant authorized by the federal government to import and process coca leaves, which it obtains from Peru and Bolivia.
Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the leaves, which it sells to Malincroft, the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medical use.
A valuable brain tonic.
A cure for all nervous afflictions.
Sick, headache, neurologica, whatever that is, hysteria, melancholy, et cetera.
The peculiar flavor of Coca-Cola delights every palate.
It is dispensed from the soda fountains in the same manner as any of the fruit syrups.
I'd like to go back and try that.
I'd like to go back to 1900 and get a glass and see what's up.
Long after the syrup ceased to contain any significant amounts of cocaine in North Carolina, dope remained a common colloquialism for Coca-Cola, and dope wagons were trucks that transported it.
It must have been real good.
It must have been real good.
Like just a little bit of a juice.
Cola nuts for caffeine.